The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-18
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raiser in Vermont for whom he worke
six years when q young man. He bull
sheds 20 feet wide, and from 90 to 8
| feet long, with loft for holding hag
! These were placed on strong runners
and distributed about the farm, where
ever he wanted the manure. As sool
as enough had accumulated he woult
hitch on four yoke of oxen and NOV,
them to another point. Some Away
remained in the pasture, and wer,
moved wherever the soil needed enrich
ing, and were used for summer as vel
as winter shelter. This man kept from
a thousand to fifteen hundred sheep
and not o1s ever had the foot rot.
w. V. Gull thought summer shelter
injurious to'sheep. He would not have
even tree in his pastuI .. Sheep ought
to be right out in the wind and sun, SC
that its fleece would dry out quickly
after a rain. If the fleece remained wei
the sheep would get maggotty, and he
had found that to cause serious loss.
Mr.. L. M. Thayer said It was right to
| have humane care for the comfort oil
our sheep. His pasture was well wood.
ed and his sheep sought the shade and
seemed to enjoy it. His sheep. had
never been troubled with maggots.
The next question for discussion was
To what extent should sheep be housed
or sheltered in winter %
Mr.. L. M. Thay err said it would not do
to shut up sheep closely in winter. One
night, by forgetting, he had left his sheep
shut up tightly in their shed, and In the
morning every sheep was running at the
nose. They recovered after time, but
he had known hocks to be injured be-
You'd recovery in that way
President Stockersaid he always closed
his doors through storm, but there
was abundant circulation of air in his
sheep shed by open windows on both
sides, about six feet from the floor in
the walls.
Mr.. w. V. Gull said he never closed
the doors of his sheep shed in the cold
est or stormiest weather Sheep must
have strictly pure air to breathe.
The next two questions on the pro-
gramme were passed for lack of time.
They were, "What exercise, if any.
should be provided for sheep in winter p
and, What is the product per acre of
land devoted to sheep husbandry ?"
The last question was taken up as be-
ing of more importance, What wages
for farm help can we afford to pay this
season.
Mr.. W. V. Gull said he did not believe
there was farmer in the county who,
for the last two or three years, had made
his farm pay profit or who had earned
as good wages as he paid his help. He
had just paid his hired man for a years
work, and to do it he had sold four head
of fat cattle, averaging over 1900 lbs.
weight each, and five fat hogs, averaging
over 200 lbs each, and had boarded him
besides. He had hired him for another
year, and at the end of the year he
should have to sell the same amount of
stock to pay him again unless prices of
produce should be higher. If there is a
farmer present whose farming had paid
him fifty cents day for his labor and
oversight he would like to have him
stand up and show himself he wanted
to see him. Or if there is one present
who had earned twenty-five cents a day
he would be glad to take look at him.
Not man got up. Every man sat as
solidly IN his seat as if he was glued to
it.
He said the question reads What
can we afford to pay"
Well we cannot afford to pay any
more wages than we get ourselves. But
there are two sides to this question A
hired man cannot afford to work on
farm for any less wages than he gets now,
while wages are so high in the cities.
There men get from $175 to 81 per day
and then are not satisfied, and strike
often for higher wages. Taxation is a
serious question, too. It took ten per
cent of the income of the farm to paw
taxes. It cost altogether too much to
run this little county. The sheriff's
salary, So, 500, with house and fuel free,
was equivalent to $4,000 for attending
the small criminal business of this little
county. And this is only one item of
expense attending criminal business. It
is time, he said, We took hold of this
matter and looked into it.
Rev. Mr.. Aplin, pastor of the Meth
odist church, Salem, said he did not like
to hear rich men complain. There were
farmers present worth from $4,000 to
$4,000, and they had made it by the
labor they had hired. No man could
get rich simply with his own labor, and
no man working for small salary ever
got wealthy by it. In case of a hired
man working OH q farm it was simply
working for enough to live on.
B. III. Stocker said he had worked on
farm several years for wages, and by
saving them had got start. What he
had was mostly the result of his own
hard labor.
W. V. Gull said his Accommodations
would not amount to more than small
wages for his own and his family's work.
They had worked hard a good many
years.
Mr. D. L. Burgess said if labcring
men would practice the same economy
he had they could accumulate faster
than could be done thirty or forty years
ago, because wages was higher and liv-
ing cheaper.
Mr.. |. P. Helms said some years ago
he hired man for 5000 and at the end
of the year he was due him $195, and he
is now on farm of his own.
Mr.. Chas. Barber instanced a young
man who commenced to work for wages
for his (Barber's) father when II years
old, and at the end of six years bought
and paid for forty acres Of land and
team.
r. F. Roberts said he had sold his la.
Dor for good many years, and made it
rule to live inside of his income and
save something every year. What he
aad was the result ofhis own hard work
and that of his wife, and he gave her
the larger share Of the credit for their
comfortable surroundings. He said an
industrious man, willing to practice
economy, soon got where he could con-
troll his own labor and employ others.
The meeting throughout was charac-
terized by lively interest and freedom
of expression.
The Association voted to hold its an
nual shearing festival at Salem the first